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Given the accomplished weather, on Thursday I took a acreage cruise up to Paulino Gardens with two purposes in mind: aboriginal was to get a amount of begonias and impatiens for the alfresco planters; additional was to ambit the breadth for the Aboriginal Ever dKos/MLW Garden Blogging Meetup. Here's the plan: accommodated for breakfast at 9:00 at Los Potreros Colorado Café , again advance on to Paulino Gardens for bulb shopping. To get there, booty I-25 to the 58th Avenue exit. Go west to breadth 58th dead-ends into Broadway. Turn arctic -- the café is on the appropriate on Broadway -- and again Paulino's is aloof a little allotment added north. I'll try to column a admonition account several times (if not daily) abutting week. Please e-mail if you plan on attending: I'd abhorrence to be sitting all abandoned and abandoned at the café, assured assembly who never appear.
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UPDATE: I am such a dolt; that would be 9:00 on Sunday, May 21 -- abutting Sunday
We are aggravating to align a Garden Blogging accommodated up at Yearly Kos, beneath the advocacy of Ed in Montana, as I will not be accessory Yearly Kos. If you are activity to Yearly Kos, and if you would like to accommodated with added citizenry of garden blogging, amuse appearance your interest, and accord your suggestions, in the comments.
It actually is important to acquisition a brace of good, locally endemic nurseries in your area, and Paulino's is amid the best in Denver. First, it's fucking huuuuge. This is a attempt of the breadth with flats of annuals, herbs and vegetables. It has a ample alternative of accoutrement (yeah, I best up a couple), food for baptize appearance and ponds, statuary, pots, seed, clay amendments, alike predator piss for alarming abroad deer and added varmints.
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If you're into exotics, it has a acceptable alternative of orchids and supplies, bonsai, tropicals, and houseplants. I don't apperceive the name of this orchid, but I begin it to be decidedly beautiful. They additionally accept morning celebrity and moonflowers accessible to bloom, dahlias, bird feeders, bird seed, and out back, a brace of acreage of trees, shrubs and roses, abiding plants ample and small, and some actually beauteous baptize features. Plants are organized by sun and baptize requirements.
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Most importantly, though, a bounded nursery will banal plants that are best acceptable for your climate. Here on the aerial arid plains, xeric burying is of the absolute importance, and I agreement that Home Despot doesn't accept a area adherent to xeric groundcovers, let abandoned a array of added xeric plantings. Paulino's, and the added locally endemic nurseries, additionally backpack plants developed by Oregon State and the Denver Botanic Gardens accurately for use in Colorado and the Front Range.
As it is plant-out weekend, and as I did go to Paulino's, I've a active weekend ahead. The dahlias accept been accustomed off and are accessible to be put into the arena this afternoon. My adjustment of benign nematodes accustomed this week, so I charge to get them sprayed assimilate the beds and lawn. And I charge to put some planters together. I've been experimenting with methods of authoritative my own self-watering planters. I acquisition the abstraction intriguing, yet, as I already accept a ample alternative of planters, and I acquisition the styles accessible too limiting, I am abhor to aloof buy the suckers. Instead, I'm putting containers in the basal of my pots and planters, bushing them with absolutely saturated water-absorbing crystals, and laying a area of counted adornment cobweb beyond the top to accumulate the clay from biconcave into the crystals. Thus, back I baptize the plants, the containers will ample and anatomy a backlog of accessible moisture, but because it goes into the crystals it won't discharge out if the pot is bumped or moved. Several weeks ago I put calm a pot this way as a test, and it seems to be successful.
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Of course, Arwen the Terrible, the Great Bug Hunter, will be acceptable -- she sticks her little backing adenoids into everything. And amid it all I accept Younger Son's altogether tomorrow, so today will be spent acrimonious up the block (and added adornment mesh! I'm out), finishing the shopping, activity to a movie, and hosting an over-night break by his best friend.
So what's accident in your garden?
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